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Arcee is a tiny 26-person U.S. startup that built a high-performing, massive, open source LLM. And it's gaining popularity with OpenClaw users.

Uber is expanding its AWS contract to run more of its ride-sharing features on Amazon's chips. This is a thumb-of-the nose at Oracle and Google.

Google's new offline-first dictation app uses Gemma AI models to take on the apps like Wispr Flow.

AI skeptics aren’t the only ones warning users not to unthinkingly trust models’ outputs — that’s what the AI companies say themselves in their terms of service

Driven by labor shortages, Japan is pushing physical AI from pilot projects into real-world deployment.

Anthropic has purchased the stealth biotech AI startup Coefficient Bio in a $400 million stock deal, according to The Information and Eric Newcomer.

Moonbounce has raised $12 million to grow its AI control engine that converts content moderation policies into consistent, predictable AI behavior.

MAI released models that can transcribe voice into text as well as generate audio and images after the group's formation six months ago.

The firm says it can reduce the cost of chip development by more than 75% and cut the timeline by more than half.

Ring's app store will allow the company to target broader use cases beyond security, like elder care or business needs.

According to a Quinnipiac University poll, 15% of Americans say they'd be willing to have a job where their direct supervisor was an AI program that assigned ta

LiteLLM had obtained two security compliance certifications via Delve and fell victim to some horrific credential-stealing malware last week.

The startup, which is planning to go public later this year, designs chips specifically for AI inference, another challenger to Nvidia's dominance.

While there’s been plenty of debate about AI sycophancy, a new study by Stanford computer scientists attempts to measure how harmful that tendency might be.

Estimates for total Claude consumer users are all over the map (we've seen figures ranging from 18 million to 30 million). Anthropic hasn't disclosed this data,

A federal judge has ordered that the Trump administration rescind recent restrictions it placed on the AI company.

Google is launching "switching tools" that, just as it sounds, will make it easier for users of other chatbots to switch to Gemini.

It's only the latest of several side projects that the AI startup has ditched over the past week.

The first lady sees AI and robotics playing a prominent role in the future of American education.

Investors like Sequoia, Andreessen Horowitz, Kleiner Perkins, and Elad Gil can't get enough of AI legal tech startup Harvey.

Granola's valuation jumped from $250 million to $1.5 billion with this round, and it has added more support for AI agents after users previously complained.

Meta is using generative AI to provide more product and brand information to consumers when they're shopping in its apps.

Anthropic’s new auto mode for Claude Code lets AI execute tasks with fewer approvals, reflecting a broader shift toward more autonomous tools that balance speed

OpenAI says it's moving away from Instant Checkout, which allowed users to buy items directly through the ChatGPT interface.